Refrigerator-ventilating device



Jan. 6. 1925.

* 1,522,043 L. A. BANTA REFRIGERATOR VENTILATING DEVICE Filed Jan. 27. 1923 i'atented Jan. 6, 1925.

UNITED LEN ALBERT BANTA, O'IE CLEARFIELD, PENNSYLVANIA.

REFRIGERATOR-VENTILATING DEVICE.

Application' filed January 27, 1923. serial no. 615,332.

T0 @ZZ whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, LEN ALBERTBANTA, a citizen of the United States, residing at Clearfield, in the county of Clearfield and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Refrigerator-Ventilating Devices; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and eXact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the artto which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in refrigerators, cooling chambers and the like, for conunercial vpurposes such as are used by butchers and other dealers in perishable food stuffs.

The invention relates more particularly to refrigerators utilizing a circulation of air, heated air from the refrigerator or cooling room proper being permitted to pass upwardly and through the cooling medium, and thence downwardly back into the refrigerator.

The object of the present invention is to provide means in4 a refrigerator of the cha-racter indicated for regulating the flow of the air'current referred to. Other objects will more particularly appear in the course of the following detailed description.

The invention consists in the novel construction, arrangement and combination of parts as hereinafter more particularly described and claimed.

One sheet of drawings accompanies this specification as part thereof, in which like reference characters indicate similar parts throughout.

Fig. l is a vertical sectional view illustrating diagrammatically the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view taken on the line 2-2 of Figure l, illustrating details of construction.

In refrigerators of the character indicated, the common practice is to provide a support for the ice or other refrigerating medium with suitable passageways for the free flow of air from the cooling chamber into the upper or refrigerating compartment. In connection with such structures it is also common practice to "provide a drainage system or gutter to receive the water formed by the melting of the ice.

In the drawings the walls, top and bottom of a refrigerator are indicated by 1, 4

represents ay grating support for the ice, while 5 represents inclined drain boards located under the grating adapted to receive and guide the water dripping from the ice into a centrally located gutter 6, provided with suitable side walls 8, having substantially parallel upper edges. The ice supporting grating 4, is provided with side walls 2, between which and the walls of the refrigerator l, the warm air from the refrigeratoris adapted to pass upwardly and thence over and between the cakes of ice downwardly as its temperature is lowered by contact with the ice and its specific gravity increased, passing downwardly through the ppening between the inclined drain boards o-.

The gutter 6 is slightly shorter than'the refrigerator and has its ends tapered or bevelled inwardly and downwardly to receive wedges 7 preferably of wood. By means of the wedges 7 the height of gutter 6 may be adjusted relatively to the drain boards 5 5, thus modifying the space between the parallel upper edges of the sides 8 of the gutter and the lower faces of the drain boards 5 to restrict or enlarge the space therebetween, and thus regulate the Elow of the cool airdownwardly into the refrigerating room.

Various modifications in the precise form and arrangement of the parts will readily suggest themselves to those skilled in the art but within the scope of the present invention as claimed. Y

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim:

In a refrigerator having a cooling compartment below an ice compartment, having spaced floor sections to the ice compartment inclined downwardly toward the intermediate space, said floors being spaced from the walls of the refrigerator to permit the upward passage of heated air from the cooling compartment; a drain and closure member adapted to cooperate with the space. intermediate the floor sections to regulatethe passage of cooled air downwardly therethrough, and wedge means adapted to seat between the ends of said drain and the walls of the refrigerator to secure the drain in position.

In testimony 'whereof I aflix my signa-- ture. f

LEN ALBERT BANTA. 

